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president of Chile from 2022 to 2026

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Gabriel Boric Font (born 11 February 1986) is a Chilean politician currently serving as the President of Chile since 11 March 2022. Boric studied in the Faculty of Law at the University of Chile, and was the President of the University of Chile Student Federation in 2012. As a student representative, he became one of the leading figures of the 2011–2013 Chilean student protests. During the 2019 civil unrest in Chile, Boric was one of the politicians negotiating the agreement that paved the way for a referendum to change the Constitution. He is the youngest president in Chile's history and second youngest state leader in the world.

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We are going to give priority to the Pacific Alliance in the future. I have already spoken with several of the presidents, in particular with [Andrés] Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, with President [Iván] Duque of Colombia, and we have also been in contact with the Peruvian Foreign Ministry.

Since I was a child I've been hearing the word de-centralization, and I agree that one of the impediments for Chile's development is the excessive centralization we have, and it is the job, a new president to address firmly the issue....Let me tell you that patronage, cronyism and quotas are definitively over.

If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave. Do not be afraid of the youth changing this country... We are a generation that emerged in public life demanding our rights be respected as rights and not treated like consumer goods or a business... We no longer will permit that the poor keep paying the price of Chile's inequality.